New Guinea

# 44317

REEVES, Edward

Brown men and women or The South Sea Islands in 1895 and 1896

London : Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1898. First edition. Octavo, publisher’s pictorial maroon cloth gilt (light rubbing, corners slightly bumped, head and tail of spine a little softened, spine lightly sunned), 60 photographic illustrations, folding map, bookplate to front pastedown, small paper flaw to frontispiece, internally fresh and clean, a very good copy. Memoir of …

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# 41879

DELATTRE, Charles

Voyages et naufrages curieux en Océanie.

Paris ; Limoges : Martial Ardent, 1850. Octavo (187 x 11 3 mm), publisher’s original embossed cloth over boards gilt (corners worn, spine with small loss at head and with loss to cloth at tail), front paste-down with original owner’s name, lithographed frontispiece with ethnic types of the Americas and Oceania (including natives of the …

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# 44023

POWELL, Jane P.; FRIEDMAN, Martin L.

Primitive Art of the Pacific Islands

New York : Brooklyn Museum, 1957. Octavo, illustrated wrappers (lightly marked), pp. [16], illustrated with tribal artefacts from New Ireland, New Guinea, Cook Islands, Gilbert Islands, Marquesas Islands, Easter Island, New Zealand and the Admiralty Islands.

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# 43436

HENDERSON, Jim and Anne

[NEW GUINEA] Languages of the Louisiade archipelago and environs

Ukarumpa PNG : Summer Institute of Linguistics, 1974. “Reprinted from Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, Volume 3″. Octavo, cloth-backed printed wrappers, pp. 39-62, with several maps; a good copy.

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# 43434

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Ane : hymn book in the Motu language of Papua.

Rabaul, New Britain, Territory of New Guinea : Methodist Mission Press, 1960. Octavo (210 x 135 mm), original cloth backed printed stiff wrappers (sunned and marked), pp 80, [3 index]; title page with early owner’s name; contents clean. Motu (sometimes called Pure Motu or True Motu to distinguish it from Hiri Motu) is a Central Papuan Tip language …

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# 43284

TAYLOR, J. L. ("Jim")

Exploration of Unknown New Guinea.

Published in four issues of Pacific Islands Monthly (Sydney, NSW), Vol. X, Nos. 8-11, March-June 1940. No. 8, Section I: pp. 37-42 with 1 map and 3 b/w photos; No. 9, Section II: pp. 37-41 with 1 map; No. 10, Section III: pp. 32-37 with 1 map; No. 11, Section IV: pp. 50-54; the four …

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# 42916

[Società Geografica Italiana]

Bollettino della Società Geografica Italiana. [Serie prima:] Anno VII. Volume X. Fascicolo 1, iuglio 1873 – Fascicolo 6, dicembre 1873].

Roma : Stabilimento Giuseppe Civelli, June-December 1873. Six parts in five volumes (as issued), octavo, original printed blue wrappers (some light staining and foxing, early ownership inscription to two of the upper wrappers); pp. 1-120 (with folding colour map showing telegraph communication linking Europe and Asia); 1-92; 1-94; 1-117; 1-74 (with folding lithographed plate of …

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# 41936

GIRARD, F.

Nouvelle-Guinée : Haut Morobé et Bas Sépik

Paris : Société des Amis du Musée de l’Homme, 1956. “Les objets présentés dans cette exposition ont été recueillis en 1954-55 par F. Girard … en mission du Musée de l’Homme et du C.N.R.S.” Small quarto, publisher’s pictorial wrappers, staple bound, [24] pp, illustrated with black and white plates, map; a fine copy. Text in French. …

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# 41691

INGLIS, Gordon

Papua : “A grandchild of the empire.”

[London] : Charles Hooper, [1912]. First edition. Small octavo (190 x 130 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered blue cloth; pp. 47, with 16 b/w photographic plates; a fine copy, with the bookplate of The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher to the front free-endpaper.

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# 41689

GRIMSHAW, Beatrice

The new New Guinea.

London : Hutchinson & Co., 1910. First edition. Thick octavo (230 x 150 mm), publisher’s gilt-decorated blue cloth (very lightly marked, spine ends a little softened); top-edge gilt; pp. viii, 322, [2] (colophon, verso blank), plus 48 leaves of b/w photographic plates, and a folding map; an excellent first edition copy, with the bookplate of …

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# 41303

GROVES, Murray

[NEW GUINEA] Dancing in Poreporena.

The Arthur Maurice Hocart Memorial Prize Essay, 1954. Offprint from The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 84: 75-90. London : RAI, [1954?]. Quarto (285 x 225 mm), original stapled green wrappers (sunned along spine, very light vertical crease, pen annotation to upper wrapper), pp. 16; internally excellent; from …

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# 41307

TERRITORY OF PAPUA. DEPARTMENT OF NATIVE EDUCATION

[NEW GUINEA] Papuan junior reader no. 5. 1943.

At head of title: Territory of Papua. Native Education. Canberra : L.F. Johnston, Commonwealth Govt. Printer, 1943. Octavo (185 x 125 mm), original printed stiff wrappers, pp [8], 198; photomechanical process and line-drawn illustrations throughout; text in English; an exceptional copy, in pristine condition; from The Papuan Collection of Charles Fletcher (Melbourne), his bookplate to the …

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# 41587

DUPEYRAT, André

[NEW GUINEA; MISSIONS] Mitsinari : twenty-one years among the Papuans

London : Staples Press, 1954. First UK edition. Octavo (220 x 145 mm), publisher’s gilt-lettered green cloth (a few marks), in the pictorial dust jacket (spine sunned, else edges chipped with small loss), endpaper maps, pp. 256, illustrated with numerous b/w photographic plates; preface by Paul Claudel; a very good copy, from The Papuan Collection …

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# 41159

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 3 Teil.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses 1923. Part 3. First edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 52. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers (detached) with illustrated front by Lina Burger and illustrated advertisement on rear for Das Kinderblatt (the Mission’s newspaper for children), pp 20, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good. …

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# 41158

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 1 Teil. 2 Auflage.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses (1918) 1922. Part one. Second edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 37. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers illustrated in red front and rear (sunned at edges, front with crease at bottom corner), stapled, pp 16, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good, a clean copy. …

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# 41157

[ZAHN, August, editor]

Papua-Märchen : gesammelt von Missionaren der Neuendettelsauer Mission. 2 Teil. 2 Auflage.

Neuendettelsau, [Germany] : Verlag des Missionshauses (1918) 1922. Part two. Second edition. Series: Verlag des Missionshauses, Nr. 38. Octavo, (220 x 140 mm), original pictorial wrappers illustrated front and rear (mild sunning at edges, slightly bruised at head of spine), stapled, pp 24, with line-drawn illustrations and decorations; contents very good, a fine copy. Second …

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